About the Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care

The Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care coordinates, ensures quality, and organizes university education for students at all levels. A significant part of our work is medical education, where the division has overall responsibility for three parts of the study programme in medicine: clinical rotations and theory at many levels of the programme, the integrated final exam, and clinical rotations for foreign students. The division has its own research school for doctoral students. Additsionally we offer courses within the physiotherapy programme and advanced-level courses for primary care personnel.

Our division is actively involved in doctoral education and extensive research, with approximately 70 researchers and doctoral students focusing on family medicine and primary care. Our research covers clinical, patient-centered, epidemiological, and healthcare science aspects. We contribute with research is  in following main fields: pedagogy, social work in healthcare, mental health, and chronic conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and pain.